by Allan Fish
Best Picture The Dead, UK, John Huston (4 votes)
Best Director Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire (5 votes)
Best Actor Bruno Ganz, Wings of Desire (4 votes)
Best Actress Stéphane Audran, Babette’s Feast (4 votes)
Best Supp Actor R.Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket (10 votes)
Best Supp Actress Anjelica Huston, The Dead (6 votes)
Best Cinematography Henri Alekan, Wings of Desire & Vittorio Storaro, The Last Emperor (6 votes each, TIE!!!)
Best Score Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su, The Last Emperor (7 votes)
Best Short The Man Who Planted Trees, Canada, Frederic Back (5 votes)
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1988
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Best Picture/Director
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The Accidental Tourist (US…Lawrence Kasdan)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (US/UK…Terry Gilliam)
The Age of Success (South Korea…Jang Seon-woo)
Akira (Japan…Katsuhiro Otomo)
Alice (UK/Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (Japan…Takashi Ishii)
Another Woman (US…Woody Allen)
Ariel (Finland…Aki Kaurismäki)
As Tears Go By (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)
Ashik Kerib (USSR…Sergei Paradjanov, Dado Abashidze)
Big (US…Penny Marshall)
The Big Blue: Version Longue (France…Luc Besson)
Bull Durham (US…Ron Shelton)
Camille Claudel (France…Bruno Nuytten)
The Cat Came Back (US…Cordell Barker)
Celia (Australia…Ann Turner)
Chocolat (France…Claire Denis)
Cinema Paradiso: the Special Edition (Italy (1994)…Giuseppe Tornatore)
Colors (US…Dennis Hopper)
Damnation (Hungary…Béla Tarr)
Dangerous Liaisons (US…Stephen Frears)
Daughters of the Nile (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
The Days of Eclipse (USSR…Aleksandr Sokurov)
Dead Ringers (Canada…David Cronenberg)
Dekalog (Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Die Hard (US…John McTiernan)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK…Terence Davies)
Drowning by Numbers (UK…Peter Greenaway)
Drums of Winter (US…Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling)
Eight Men Out (US…John Sayles)
A Fish Called Wanda (UK…Charles Crichton)
Frantic (US…Roman Polanski)
Grave of the Fireflies (Japan…Isao Takahata)
Heat and Sunlight (US…Rob Nilsson)
Her Vengeance (Hong Kong…Ngai Choi-lam)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (France…Marcel Ophuls)
Ivan and Alexandra (Bulgaria…Ivan Nitchev)
Jack the Ripper (UK…David Wickes)
Jeanne’s House (France…Magali Clément)
King Lear (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Landscape in the Mist (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)
The Last Temptation of Christ (US…Martin Scorsese)
La Lectrice (France…Michel Deville)
Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)
Leningrad Cowboys Go to America (Finland…Aki Kaurismaki)
Little Dorrit: Parts I & II (UK…Christine Edzard)
Little Vera (USSR…Vasili Pichul)
Midnight Run (US…Martin Brest)
Mignon Has Left (Italy…Francesca Archibugi)
Mississippi Burning (US…Alan Parker)
The Moderns (US…Alan Rudolph)
My Neighbour Totoro (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (US…David Zucker)
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (New Zealand…Vincent Ward)
On the Silver Globe (Poland…Andrzej Zulawski)
La Passion Beatrice (France…Bertrand Tavernier)
Prosperities of Vice (Japan…Akio Jissoji)
Rain Man (US…Barry Levinson)
The Rainbow (UK …Stuart Burge)
Salaam Bombay! (India…Mira Nair)
A Short Film About Killing (Poland… Krzysztof Kieslowski)
A Short Film About Love (Poland… Krzysztof Kieslowski)
South (Argentina…Fernando E.Solanas)
Splendor (Italy…Ettore Scola)
A Story of Women (France…Claude Chabrol)
The Summer of Aviya (Israel…Eli Cohen)
A Tale of the Wind (France…Joris Ivens)
Tales of the Gimli Hospital (Canada…Guy Maddin)
Talking to Strangers (US…Robert Tregenza)
The Tenth Man (US…Jack Gold)
Testimony (UK…Tony Palmer)
The Thin Blue Line (US…Errol Morris)
The Time of the Gypsies (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Japan…Akio Jissoji)
Trois Places pour le 26 (France…Jacques Demy)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (US…Philip Kaufman)
The Vanishing (Netherlands/France…George Sluizer)
A Very British Coup (UK…Mick Jackson)
War Requiem (UK…Derek Jarman)
When the Wind Blows (UK…Jimmy T.Murakami)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (US…Robert Zemeckis)
Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East? (South Korea…Bae Yong-kyun)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)
A World Apart (UK…Chris Menges)
Wuthering Heights (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)
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Best Actor
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Eric Bogosian Talk Radio
Michael Caine Jack the Ripper TV
Tom Cruise Rain Man
Willem Dafoe The Last Temptation of Christ
Robert de Niro Midnight Run
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu The Vanishing
Robert Duvall Colors
Charles Grodin Midnight Run
Gene Hackman Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks Big
Charlton Heston A Man for All Seasons TV
Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
Bob Hoskins Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Barnard Hughes Da
William Hurt The Accidental Tourist
Jeremy Irons Dead Ringers
Derek Jacobi Little Dorrit
John Malkovich Dangerous Liaisons
Edward James Olmos Stand and Deliver
James Wilby A Handful of Dust
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Best Actress
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Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel
Juliette Binoche The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Christine Boisson Jeanne’s House
Genevieve Bujold Dead Ringers
Glenn Close Dangerous Liaisons
Freda Dowie Distant Voices, Still Lives
Jodie Foster The Accused
Melanie Griffith Working Girl
Barbara Hershey A World Apart
Nicole Kidman Dead Calm
Carmen Maura Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Miou-Miou La Lectrice
Helen Mirren Pascali’s Island
Natalya Negoda Little Vera
Sydney Penney Bernadette
Joan Plowright The Dressmaker
Miranda Richardson Sweet As You Are TV
Gena Rowlands Another Woman
Susan Sarandon Bull Durham
Rebecca Smart Celia
Imogen Stubbs The Rainbow TV
Kathleen Turner The Accidental Tourist
Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist
Delphine Zentout Virgin
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Best Supp Actor
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Charles Dance Pascali’s Island
Alec Guinness A Handful of Dust
Alec Guinness Little Dorrit
Harvey Keitel The Last Temptation of Christ
Roy Kinnear A Man for All Seasons TV
Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda
John Lone The Moderns
Ray McAnally Jack the Ripper TV
Philippe Noiret Cinema Paradiso
Michael Palin A Fish Called Wanda
Pete Postlethwaite Distant Voices, Still Lives
Jean Reno The Big Blue
Alan Rickman Die Hard
Tim Robbins Bull Durham
Dean Stockwell Married to the Mob
David Strathairn Eight Men Out
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Best Supp Actress
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Maria Casares La Lectrice
Joan Cusack Working Girl
Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist
Sandy Dennis Another Woman
Linda Fiorentino The Moderns
Barbara Hershey The Last Temptation of Christ
Keito Ito Wuthering Heights
Jodhi May A World Apart
Lena Olin The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Michelle Pfeiffer Dangerous Liaisons
Kristin Scott Thomas A Handful of Dust
Yuko Tanaka Wuthering Heights
Angela Walsh Distant Voices, Still Lives
Sigourney Weaver Working Girl
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Best Cinematography
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Giorgos Arvanitis Landscape in the Mist
Michael Ballhaus The Last Temptation of Christ
Peter Biziou Mississippi Burning
Bruno de Keyser La Passion Béatrice
William Diver, Patrick Duval Distant Voices, Still Lives
Junichiro Hayashi Wuthering Heights
Pierre Lhomme Camille Claudel
Sven Nykvist The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Giuseppe Rotunno The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Philippe Rousselot Dangerous Liaisons
John Seale Rain Man
Peter Suschitsky Dead Ringers
Carlo Varini, Luc Besson, Christian Petron The Big Blue
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Best Score
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George Fenton Dangerous Liaisons
Peter Gabriel The Last Temptation of Christ
Joe Hisaishi My Neighbour Totoro
Eleni Karaindrou Landscape in the Mist
Yoshio Mamiya Grave of the Fireflies
Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso
Michael Nyman Drowning by Numbers
Zbigniew Preisner Dekalog TV
Eric Serra The Big Blue
Howard Shore Dead Ringers
Alan Silvestri Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Toru Takemitsu Wuthering Heights
Gabriel Yared Camille Claudel
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Best Short
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Another Kind of Love (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Blackadder: The Comic Relief Years (UK…Richard Curtis, Ben Elton)
The Cat Came Back (Canada…Cordell Barker)
The Dirk Diggler Story (US…Paul Thomas Anderson)
Family Portrait: The Simpsons (US…Matt Groening)
Feelings of Mountains and Waters (China…Wei Te)
Girls Night Out (UK…Joanna Quinn)
I…Dreaming (US…Stan Brakhage)
The Last Theft (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Barta)
The Public Voice (Denmark…Lejf Marcussen)
Still Nacht I (UK…Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
Tin Toy (US…John Lasseter)
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Writers/Founders
Wonders in the Dark 
Pic – Cinema Paradiso: the Special Edition (Italy (1994)…Giuseppe Tornatore)
Director – My Neighbour Totoro (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki) (yeah, an animated feature!)
Actor – Dustin Hoffman Rain Man
Actress – Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel
Supp Actor – Philippe Noiret Cinema Paradiso
Supp Actress – Sigourney Weaver Working Girl
Score – Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso
Best Picture: Cinema Paradiso
Best Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski (Dekalog)
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel)
Best Supporting Actor: Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso)
Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
Best Cinematography William Diver & Patrick Duval (Distant Voices Still Lives)
Best Score: Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso)
The 1988 Hall of Fame: Cinema Paradiso; Dekalog; Distant Voices Still Lives; The Accidental Tourist; Grave of the Fireflies; The Thin Blue Line; Little Dorrit; Why Has Bodhi-Darma Left For the East?; A Fish Called Wanda; The Last Temptation of Christ; The Navigator; The Unbearable Lighness of Being; Wuthering Heights; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Eight Men Out; The Vanishing (the latter extremely well-made but exceedingly disturbing and not a re-visit kind of film for me)
Best Short: The Cat Came Back
Picture: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Director: Pedro Almodovar, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Actor: Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers
Actress: Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
Sup. Actor: Philippe Noiret, Cinema Paradiso
Sup. Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Liaisons
Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot, Dangerous Liaisons
Best Picture: The Vanishing
Runner ups: Dead Ringers, A Short Film About Killing, The Thin Blue Line, and A Short Film About Love
Solid year overall. And on to the 90’s……
“And on to the 90’s”
Always a shot towards 1989 (my own favorite year of the decade), sometimes aggressively sometimes like here with subtlety. Ha!
Best Picture: Dead Ringers
Best Director: David Cronenberg- Dead Ringers
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons- Dead Ringers
Best Actress: Glen Close- Dangerous Liaisons
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Guinness: Little Dorrit
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Pfieffer: Dangerous Liaisons
Best Score: Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso
Two 1988 movies I wish I could say I’ve seen: Chabrol’s STORY OF WOMEN and Kaurismaki’s LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA. Maybe I’ll watch them this week and change my opinions. But I’d doubt it. Kepping mo comments brief again this week:
PICTURE: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, The Dekalog, The Last Temptation of Christ, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, Cinema Paradiso, The Thin Blue Line, Distant Voices Still Lives, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Vanishing, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Hairspray, Dangerous Liasons, Dead Ringers, High Hopes, A Fish Called Wanda, Things Change, Clean and Sober, Let’s Get Lost, Drowning by Numbers, Another Woman, A World Apart, Grave of the Fireflies, They Live, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Bird, Alice, Akira, Bull Durham, Beetlejuice, Paperhouse, My Neighbor Totoro, Little Dorrit, Frantic, The Navigator, The Beast, Miracle Mile, Running on Empty, In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders, Candy Mountain, The Accidental Tourist, The Accused, Crossing Delancey, The Bear, Midnight Run, School Daze, Rain Man, Tales of the Gimli Hospital, Camille Claudel, Dominick and Eugene, Eight Men Out, Mystic Pizza, Working Girl, Stand and Deliver, The Chocolate War, Lady in White, Colors, The Good Mother, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, Coming to America, Married to the Mob, Mississippi Burning, Big, Biloxi Blues, A Cry in the Dark, The Milagro Beanfield War
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (2nd: Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, followed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Dekalog; Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso; Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line; Terrence Davies, Distant Voices Still Lives; Francis Ford Coppola, Tucker: The Man and His Dream)
ACTOR: Jeremy Irons, DEAD RINGERS (2nd: Michael Keaton, Clean and Sober, followed by: Don Ameche, Things Change; Forrest Whitaker, Bird; Willem Dafoe, The Last Temptation of Christ; Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, The Vanishing; Bob Hoskins, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Tom Hulce, Dominick and Eugene; Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver)
ACTRESS: Juliette Binoche, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (2nd: Glenn Close, Dangerous Liasons, followed by: Jodie Foster, The Accused; Carmen Maura, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel; Barbara Hershey, A World Apart; Gena Rowlands, Another Woman; Rush Sheen, High Hopes)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Phillippe Noiret, CINEMA PARADISO (2nd: Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice, followed by: Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dream; Alan Rickman, Die Hard; Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda; River Phoenix, Running on Empty; Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit; Michael Palin, A Fish Called Wanda; Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lena Olin, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHNESS OF BEING (2nd: Johanna Ter Steege, The Vanishing, followed by: Jodhi May, A World Apart; Diane Venora, Bird; Leslie Manville, High Hopes; Edna Dore, High Hopes; Kathy Baker, Clean and Sober; Michelle Pfieffer, Dangerous Liasons)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sven Nykvist, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (2nd: Vittorio Storaro; Tucker: The Man and His Dream; Giuseppe Rotunno, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; Jan De Bont, Die Hard; Phillippe Rousselot, The Bear; Michael Ballhaus, The Last Temptation of Christ; Peter Suschitzky, Dead Ringers)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Peter Gabriel, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (2nd: Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso, followed by: Alan Silvestri, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Danny Elfman, Beetlejuice; Dave Grusin, The Milagro Beanfield War; George Fenton, Dangerous Liasons)
SHORT FILM: The Cat Came Back (Cordell Barker, Canada) (2nd: The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh, UK), followed by: The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (Dean Parisot and Steven Wright, US)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Giuseppe Tornatore, CINEMA PARADISO (2nd: Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, The Dekalog, followed by: Mike Leigh, High Hopes; John Cleese and Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda; Ron Shelton, Bull Durham; Terrence Davies, Distant Voices Still Lives; David Mamet, Things Change; Tod Carroll, Clean and Sober)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Philip Kaufman and Jean Claude Carriere, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (2nd: Christopher Hampton, Dangerous Liasons, followed by: Christine Edzard, Little Dorrit; George Sluzier and Tim Crabbe, The Vanishing; Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Paul Schrader, The Last Temptation of Christ; Charles McKeown and Terry Gilliam, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris) (2nd: Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophuls); Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber); The Decline of Western Civilization Part II (Penelope Spheeris))
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM: THE DEKALOG (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland) (2nd: Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy); The Vanishing (George Sluzier, Netherlands); Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, Japan); Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan); Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten, France)
ART DIRECTION: THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Tucker; The Man and His Dream, Dangerous Liasons; Little Dorrit, Beetlejuice, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
COSTUME DESIGN: THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Dangerous Liasons, The Last Temptation of Christ, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Beetlejuice; Hairspray; The Moderns
FILM EDITING: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, Die Hard, The Last Temptation of Christ; The Thin Blue Line; Cinema Paradiso, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Tucker: The Man and His Dream,
SOUND: DIE HARD, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bird, Beetlejuice, The Bear, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
ORIGINAL SONG: “Hairspray“ from HAIRSPRAY (music and lyrics by Rachel Sweet, Willa Bassen and Anthony Battaglia) (2nd: “Let The Rivers Run” from Working Girl (music and lyrics by Carly Simon); “Da Butt” from School Daze (music and lyrics by Marcus Miller and Mark Stevens); “Straight and Nappy“ from School Daze (music and lyrics by Bill Lee); “Colors” from Colors (music and lyrics by Ice-T and Afrika Islam))
ADAPTATION SCORE/SCORING OF A MUSICAL: BIRD (Lennie Niehaus) (2nd: School Daze (Bill Lee)
SPECIAL EFFECTS: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?, Die Hard, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dead Ringers
MAKEUP: BEETLEJUICE, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Coming to America
ANIMATED FEATURE: GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Isao Takahata, Japan) (2nd: Alice (Jan Svenkmeyer, UK/Czechosovakia), followed by: Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan), My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
“The Man who Planted Trees” Woohoo.
Best Picture of 1988: Rain Man
Best Director: John McTierman – Die Hard
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman – Rainman
Best Actress: Gena Rowlands – Another Woman
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Rickman – Die Hard
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis – Another Woman
Best Cinematography: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Best Score: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Best Short: Feelings of Mountains and Waters – Wei Te
Miscellaneous Awards:
· Best Chilean Film: 100 Children Waiting for a Train
· Best Animated Film: My Neighbor Totoro
· Best Horror Sequel: Phantasm II
· Worst Horror Sequel: A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
· Worst Short: The Dirk Diggler Story
· Worst Animated Film: The Land Before Time
· Possibly the Worst Movie of all Time: The Brain
· Most Underrated Film of the Year: Monkey Shines
· Most Overrated Film of the Year: TIE Nuovo Cinema Paradiso and Pumpkinhead
“· Worst Animated Film: The Land Before Time”
Ah, but you were not born until 1989.
Bliss was it to be alive when an animated dinosaur film was in theaters, but to be 4 was very heaven…
I was born in 1990! Hahah
Even worse. 😉
Top 5 of 1988:
1. Rainman
2. Die Hard
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Another Woman
5. 100 Kids Waiting for a Train
Why is The Land Before Time your choice for the Worst Animated Film of 1988. Is it because of the long line of sequels?
Film: The Decalogue
Reminds me of what George Orwell wrote in ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’ — the decalogue should be reduced to two commandments: Thou Shalt Make Money (for employers) and Thou Shalt Not Lose Thy Job (for the employed).
RU: A World Apart
Director: Kieslowski; Menges; Almodovar (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
Actor: Antonio Banderas (Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) RU Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Actress: Barbara Hershey (A World Apart) RU: Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
S. Actor: Alec Guinness (A Handful of Dust) RU: River Phoenix (Running on Empty)
S. Actress: Jodhi May (A World Apart) RU: Michelle Pfieffer (Dangerous Liasons)
Photography: Peter Biziou (A World Apart)
Liaisons. I always misspell the word.
Aw, nuts. Someone just told me that ‘Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is a 1989 film, so….replace Antonio Banderas with Jeremy Irons for best actor.
I think I also misspelled Pfeiffer. Jeeez.
Actually it’s 1990, it was only seen behind closed doors in 1989, not publicly.
I hope Hoffman doesn’t get the vote for actor here. No disrespect to anyone who voted for him but im really not a fan of his performance here.
Yes, it’s shit.
Best Picture – Cinema Paradiso:
Best Actor – Gene Hackman Mississippi Burning
Best Actress – Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel
Best Supporting Actor – Pete Postlethwaite Distant Voices, Still Lives
Best Supporting Actress – Lena Olin The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Cinematography – Sven Nykvist The Unbearable Lightness of Being
PICTURE: Dekalog
DIRECTOR: Kieslowski
LEAD ACTOR: Forest Whitaker, Bird
LEAD ACTRESS: Carmen Maura, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Liaisons
SHORT:
SCORE: Toru Takemitsu, Wuthering Heights
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Junichiro Hayashi, Wuthering Heights
Plus bonus picks:
Script: The Dekalog, collectively, and individually, they’d come close to being the top 10
Music/Sound: Married to the Mob has the Feelies again… Demme’s soundtracks are usually as interesting as his films
Martial Arts: I forgot this last week. This is a good year for it though – Dragons Forever is absolutely thrilling
Best Picture: Cinema Paradiso
2. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
3. The Vanishing
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives
5. The Last Temptation of Christ
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ)
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Best Actress: Juliette Binoche (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Best Supporting Actor: Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso)
Best Supporting Actress: Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Best Cinematography: William Diver, Patrick Duval (Distant Voices, Still Lives)
Best Score: Michael Nyman (Drowning by Numbers)
This is actually a pretty strong year for the U.S., with quite a few American films superior to the Best Picture winner. Unforunately, I’ve seen fewer of the foreign-language films from 88 than I should have by now. Judge the list accordingly.
Best Picture: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(runners-up: Eight Men Out, Akira, Working Girl, Tucker: the Man and His Dream)
Best Director: Kaufman
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Tucker
Best Actress: Griffith, Working Girl
Supporting Actor: Rickman, Die Hard
Supporting Actress: Olin, Unbearable Lightness
Cinematography: Nykvist, Unbearable Lightness
Score: Phillip Glass, The Thin Blue Line
Not quite sure what happened to shorts till now, but they’ve just been added. Vote away…
Feature: Dekalog
2. The Vanishing
3. Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East?
4. Grave of the Fireflies
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Short: Still Nacht I
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Dekalog
Actor: Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers
Actress: Susan Sarandon, Bull Durham (by default; there’s a TON of performances here I need to see)
Supp. Actor: Michael Palin, A Fish Called Wanda (I would like to honor Donnadieu here, since I think of his memorable turn as a supporting role, but it’s a debatable placement, so I’ll leave it be)
Supp. Actress: Johanna ter Steege, The Vanishing
Cinematography: Sławomir Idziak, A Short Film About Killing
Score: Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso
Screenplay: The Vanishing
Editing:
AkiraThe Last of EnglandSince IMDb lists it as 1988, Wikipedia does not provide a context or specific date for its listing as 1987, and Allan does not include it among his nominees for either year, I’m adding Derek Jarman’s hypnotic Last of England, which I saw last night, as my pick for Editing (not that it matters, since I made up the category).
My votes for 1988:-
Best Picture: Dekalog
Best Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski (Dekalog & A Short Film About Love)
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Best Actress: Tania Palaiologou (Landscape in the Mist)
Best Supporting Actor: Phillippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso)
Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis (Another Woman)
Best Cinematography: Giorgos Arvanitis (Landscape in the Mist)
Best Score: Zbigniew Preisner (Dekalog & A Short FIlm About Love)
Top 10:
1. Dekalog (this is a 1989 work as per my records)
2. A Short Film About Love
3. Landscape in the Mist
4. Damnation
5. Ariel
6. Dead Ringers
7. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (this too is a 1989 film as per my records)
8. Another Woman
9. A Short Film About Killing
10. Cinema Paradiso
Firstly let me say I’m so pleased THE DEAD won Best Picture. Secondly great to see Irons doing so well this year.
BEST PICTURE: DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES
BEST DIRECTOR: Theo Angelopoulos for LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
BEST ACTOR: Jeremy Irons for DEAD RINGERS
BEST ACTRESS: Freda Dowie for DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Philippe Noiret for CINEMA PARADISO
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandy Dennis for ANOTHER WOMAN
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Giorgos Arvanitis for LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST
BEST SCORE: Ennio Morricone for CINEMA PARADISO
BEST SHORT: TIN TOY.
Picture: Grave of the Fireflies
Director: Isao Takahata
Actor: Jeremy Irons – Dead Ringers
Film: Cinema Paradiso
Director: Tornatore
Actor: Jeremy Irons
Actress: Carmen Maura
Supp. Actor: Phillipe Noiret
Supp. Actress: Lena Olin
Cinematography: Peter Suschitsky
Score: Ennio Morricone
Short: The Cat Came Back
Very tough to choose. My heart says Cinema Paradiso but my mind is with Dekalog. Sorry mind, heart wins.
Best film: Cinema Paradiso
director: Kieslowski
actor: Jeremy Irons
actress: Glenn Close
supporting actor: Philippe Noiret
cinematography: Landscape in the Mist
Top five for 1988:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Philip Kaufman
2. The Dekalog – Krzysztof Kieslowski
3. Distant Voices, Silent Lives – Terence Davies
4. Rouge – Stanley Kwan
5. Another Woman – Woody Allen
Best Picture: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel)
Best supporting actor: Pete Postlethwaite (Distant Voices, Silent Lives)
Best supporting actress: Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
Best Score: Peter Gabriel (The Last Temptation Of Christ)
Wheres Dennis these days? His opinions and reviews on these yearly lists are some of my favourites to read.
Best Picture – Mississippi Burning
Best Director – Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
Best Actor – Gene Hackman Mississippi Burning
Best Actress – Jodie Foster The Accused
Best Supp Actor – Tim Robbins Bull Durham
Best Supp Actress – Sigourney Weaver Working Girl
Best Picture: The Thin Blue Line
Best Director: Eroll Morris (The Thin Blue Line)
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
Best Actress: Susan Sarandon (Bull Durham)
Best Supporting Actor:Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso)
Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
Best Cinematography: Phillipe Rousellot (Dangerous Liasons)
Best Score: Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso)
Best Short: The Cat Came Back
Pic- The Dekalog
Dir – Kieslowski
Actor- Irons – Dead Ringers
Actress – Binoche – Unbearable Lightness….
Supp. Actor – Noiret – Cinema Paradiso
Supp. Actress – Olin – Unbearable Lightness….
Score – Gabriel – The Last Temptation….
Cinematography – Arvanitis – Landscape in the Mist
Picture: Dangerous Liaisons
Director: Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons)
Actor: Derek Jacobi (Little Dorrit) (I also love William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist)
Actress: Gena Rowlands (Another Woman)
Supporting actor: Philippe Noiret (Cinema Paradiso)
Supporting actress: Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
An incredible year for cinema and one thats very underrated.
Best Picture: A Tale of the Wind
Honestly this might as well be a three way tie between this, Dead Ringers, and Dekalog. I ended up going with the one that is most underrated of the bunch (in this case, criminally so).
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers)
The finest performance of the 80s. Runner Up: Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich
Best Actress: Tania Palaiologou (Landscape in the Mist)
A fantastic child performance. Runner Up: Genevieve Bujold, Freda Dowie
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Rickman (Die Hard)
Arguably the most memorable action movie villain of 80s. Runner Up: Pete Postlethwaite, Mirosław Baka
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Liaisons)
Pfeiffer gives the best of three fine performances in a well acted film. Runner Up: Sigourney Weaver, Angela Walsh
Best Cinematography: Peter Suschitsky (Dead Ringers)
Suschitsky and Cronenberg’s first collaboration and it’s a beauty! Runner Up: Giorgos Arvanitis, Michael Ballhaus
Best Score: Phillip Glass (The Thin Blue Line)
One of Glass’s finest scores. Runner Up: Howard Shore, Yoshio Mamiya
Best Short: I…Dreaming
Top 15
A Tale of the Wind/Une Histoire de vent – dir. Joris Ivens (Netherlands, France)
Dead Ringers – dir. David Cronenberg (US, Canada)
The Decalogue/Dekalog – dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland)
I…Dreaming – dir. Stan Brakhage (US)
Landscape in the Mist/Τοπίο στην ομίχλη – dir. Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
End Of The World/Koniec Swiata – dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska (Poland)
On the Silver Globe/Na Srebrnym Globie – dir. Andrzej Zulawski (Poland)
The Last Temptation of Christ – dir. Martin Scorsese (US)
Akira – dir. Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan)
Distant Voices, Still Lives – dir. Terence Davies (UK)
They Live – dir. John Carpenter (US)
My Neighbour Totoro/Tonari no Totoro – dir. Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)
Grave of the Fireflies/Hotaru no haka – dir. Isao Takahata (Japan)
The Thin Blue Line – dir. Errol Morris (US)
Alice – dir. Jan Svankmajer (UK/Czechoslovakia)